Posted on Jan 30, 2018 in
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Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit.
Two-time Grammy Award winner Jason Isbell and his mighty band The 400 Unit have announced a Spring 2018 tour stop on May 2nd at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land in support of their highly acclaimed album The Nashville Sound (Southeastern Records). The legendary guitarist Richard Thompson has been slated to open most of the new dates.
The Nashville Sound has been nominated for two 2018 Grammy Awards – Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song If We Were Vampires.The independently released album has gone on to sell over120,000 copies.
Following its release, The Nashville Sound received great support from the press. Feature coverage ranged from Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and Garden & Gun
to NPR Morning Edition, Huffington Post and Men’s Journal. Isbell was the subject of a November Q&A in Vanity Fair. In 2017, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and CBS Saturday Morning, along with feature segments on PBS Newshour and CBS This
Morning. The group recently taped their second appearance of Austin City Limits, which is scheduled to begin airing nationally on January 13th.
The Nashville Sound is the follow up to 2015’s critically acclaimed Something More
Than Free, which won Grammy Awards for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song 24 Frames.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit features, Isbell (guitar), Derry deBorja (keyboards), Chad Gamble (drums), Jimbo Hart (bass), Amanda Shires (fiddle) and Sadler Vaden (guitar). Years of touring and packing venues in the United States and abroad has galvanized this group of fantastic musician and made them one of strongest acts on the road today.
Tickets for the May 2nd Smart Financial Centre performance are available at Ticketmaster.com.
